New Delhi: Newly elected Sri Lanka president Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Party coalition has secured a majority in the parliamentary snap polls that took place barely seven weeks since he assumed office.
Reports say that the NPP has secured 113 seats in the Sri Lankan parliament. Prior to the election, Dissanayake’s coalition just three of parliament’s 225 seats.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya of Sajith Premadasa is a distant second with 31 seats.
The majority will be crucial as Dissanayake pushes his promised tax and economic reforms.
Voting took place a day ago, on November 14.
As The Wire has reported before, the five-year term of Sri Lanka’s unicameral parliament was set to lapse in August 2025, but Dissanayake had promised during his presidential election campaign to dissolve it immediately were he to come to power.
This is a breaking news copy and will be updated as poll data comes in.
